Tamil → English transcript

When the matter came up of marrying that Satyavati into our family.

When Satyavati's father put forward some conditions.

Bhishma agreed to all those conditions.

What condition?

That you will not inherit the throne.

The kingdom must go only to my son.

Bhishma said, "So be it."

I do not want the kingdom.

Then someone else asked.

No — you won't, will you?

Your children will not inherit the throne either.

Sir, if your children were to get it...

Why then would the kingdom not pass on to your descendants?

If that's the case, I will not agree to the marriage.

Because of that, my children will have no standing there.

On hearing that, Bhishma accepted all of his conditions.

He ruined your household's prospects.

So when he said that...

I will give my daughter to your father.

And so he gave her.

Sandhan was also very happy about that.

Muruthi will come to your place exactly whenever you think of him.

For everyone else too, Muruthi will come and go according to his own wishes.

But he cannot come to your place solely according to his own wishes.

When you think of it, won't Muruthi come to your place?

We cannot come to your place merely because you think so.

Because I have Brahma's blessing, I possess the primary power over this occurrence.

Therefore I grant you this boon.

That is what is called svecchāmaranam (voluntary death).

Any one of us can grant svecchāmaranam.

I thought he would stop and leave.

If we think like that, will it happen?

It won't happen.

We'll go today; no one will know.

But because of the power of the boon that was given to Appa,

there existed a power called svecchāmaranam.

He was aware that such a power existed.

He was waiting for Uttarayana to show it to the world.